On 20 October 2017 at 10:14, Stefan Fuchs <sfu...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hallo Dirk, > > thanks for the warm words - it's real fun to work together with all of you - > but my wife will kill me soon... ;-)
yeah, please be careful to not get burned out from work and/or divorced. "hey, i got divorced because i worked all night on software" doesn't sound good. > > Am 19.10.2017 um 13:54 schrieb Dirk Hohndel: > >> My plan right now is to give people a couple of days to read the manual, >> maybe (if you are ambitious), add translations for the changes in the >> manual, spend time with the remaining translations on Transifex (I just >> pushed another hand full of strings - so right now all languages are >> missing a few translations) and maybe fix a few more oddities. > > I'll pause doing (small) features now. I already have one or two smalls > things ready but they have to wait for post 4.7. yes, feature locking sounds very reasonable at this stage - i.e. BETA. > > Unfortunately I constantly stumble across small bugs at the moment. Will > still try to fix a few more. > that's where the "release-small, release-often" model works great: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Release_early,_release_often i haven't read this in a book or something, i just saw it in action in a big public closed source project...it works great. aaand i think i've proposed this at least 3 times the past 6 years. :-) what i propose: 1) add "daily" links next to the the official download link on the website i'm pretty sure we already point a lot of people to the daily links. 2) the community is the QA team (like we already do that) e.g. Rick saw a crash yesterday, he immediately reported it, but it wasn't the latest build and we already have a fix for that. the software crashing is not that dangerous. 3) we only announce MINOR bumps to social media. we announce PATCH bumps *only* at the website and do PATCH bump more often too. put the change log on the website - the dev. team can help to update that. i will add Dirk and Linus to CC, to see if they want to trigger this change one day. thanks lubomir -- _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list subsurface@subsurface-divelog.org http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
